Donetsk People's Republic

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A secession state proclaimed in Donechchyna, the Ukraine on the 7th of April, 2014; the successor state of the 1918 Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic and one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.

Origin

• A calque of the Russian Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика and/or the Ukrainian Донецька народна республіка.